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The Story of Jonathan Meese

The Story of Jonathan Meese

The German artist Jonathan Meese tells the incredible story of his childhood and of how he became an artist; how he invented his own language as a teenager and how he discovered his artistic talent on his 22nd birthday.

Interview by Christian Lund in Jonathan Meese's studio in Berlin, February 2011.

Jonathan Meese & his mother

Mommy and Me are Animals

German artist & enfant terrible Jonathan Meese is interviewed with the most important person in the world – his 84 year old mother, Brigitte Meese. The two have worked together for 44 years, if you include the years before he became an artist.

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